Debit cards are perfectly safe and 100% insured by both the bank and the government in most countries. Some shitty banks try to pass off costs to the consumer but if you push it with an ombudsman then they will buckle.

Credit cards are convenient in that you get the funds back immediately while the credit card company does its own investigation. With your bank account they might make you wait the results of an investigation if the amount is large enough but most accounts have withdrawal limits anyway.

Dev wrote on Oct 24, 2012, 18:24:Apple fans are never irked at new stuff. Many/most of them rush to buy the next gen even if they bought theirs a couple months ago. Which is why apple releases new gens so fast after all. They make piles of money doing it.

That same thing can be said about Android fans also. How often does a new Android tablet come out like every 3-4 months or less?

That's not really comparable, Nexus devices get support for years since they are considered the flagship phone.

Beelzebud wrote on Oct 23, 2012, 18:35:I get the feeling you don't understand the difference between comments from a stranger on the internet, and a boss harassing an employee. You have power over your employees.

Anyone that egotistical and prideful that they would jeopardize not just themselves but their company and employees by commenting on current litigation just to defend themselves on an internet forum is a fucking baby. Just about the dumbest and most immature thing I've seen from a supposed adult.

I wonder if people who won't buy from Stardock because Wardell forgoes gentlemanly class in emailing female worker

I can't do much about shitty Chinese working conditions but I can not purchase a game from someone exhibiting behavior I don't agree with.

That's ok, people will keep using whatever they want and you will just look like chumps for not doing what you said you would. They won't even ban real cheaters, no one is getting hurt over this. What a waste of time.

Slick wrote on Oct 21, 2012, 19:18:never gets old. *especially hilarious when they fix stuff, release new kick-ass DLC, or give away DLC for free and then people crucify them, those occasions are particularly delicious*

Last time I checked they charged for the game and all DLC. Patches are not charity, there is a business benefit to fixing your game when you ship it with bugs.

you guys realize that BF3 is arguably the most technically ambitious FPS title ever released in the history of mankind.

You're just talking about the graphics engine. Planetside 2 provides much larger scale battles with higher player counts.

Nucas wrote on Oct 21, 2012, 21:17:as long as there's adequate training at the retail level (which really looks very so-so, they're fucking up here) average users are going to benefit from this. the windows desktop was 20 years old, do any of you use any other piece of technology that fucking antiquated?

The Windows desktop was not designed 20 years ago and left untouched, it has evolved considerably with time. The metro UI is a functional downgrade in many ways. Lots of empty, negative space, less application management, restrictive store model and so on. Normal users will likely have trouble adapting because they will be jumping between desktop applications, store applications and bizarre circumstances like getting an RT tablet that will not run one app but will run another. This is all further compounded by the Windows Store not accepting desktop apps.

This is not the easy transition nor does it have as many tangible benefits for "regular users" as you would like to paint it. The usage model for dicking around with twitter, email and facebook has been largely solved by smartphones already, tablets to a lesser extent. Microsoft is incredibly late to the media consumption game and their approach will likely anger many users, normal and otherwise.

Mordecai Walfish wrote on Oct 20, 2012, 16:41:They added a function to the console to enable it because others were using 3rd party tools to do this, and clearly said before that they were banning the use of that mod because it attained the desired effect in a way that could be similarly used for *actual* exploits to the graphics that could potentially give an unfair edge.

But please go ahead and complain more because they added in a feature that many BF3 players desired & were using 3rd party programs previously to attain.

Dice really cares about hackers after all, they've done so much about them in the past.

Not sure if you're trying to contradict your own assessments here or what, but you're doing a pretty bang-up job of it....So please, don't assume you're 'telling it like it is' when all you're doing is literally the exact same thing you find "annoying".

I kind of chuckled at the irony myself. It's funny how trolls all tend to exhibit the same tendencies and say the same things, almost if they were controlled by a hive mind or something.

No one said he was a smart troll Too bad his hardkore games can't keep him entertained, hes here hammering reload as fast as possible.